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Chapter 1: Disappearance!

Ash Ketchum was having his friend, Rai, who had Ash's Unova outfit on, but without the hat, black hair with violet tips, dark chocolate irises and blue eye whites and reversed markings of Ash's markings, over to hang out at his house.

They were sitting on Ash's bed, arguing about who would win a battle between the two of them.

"Ash, I'm way more powerful than you in everyway shape and size. You would have trouble putting one little scratch on me." said Rai, looking at Ash with his arms crossed.

"Are you serious, Rai? I wouldn't have a problem with putting a scratch on you!" yelled Ash, starting to lose his cool.

"But you would have trouble defeating me." said Rai, his arms still crossed with a smirk on his face.

"You're right about that." said Ash sadly, realizing that it was true.

"Ash, don't get down about that. I think that it would be a very interesting battle between the two of us." said Rai, a little sad that he had made Ash sad.

"It's fine, Rai. You're right about that last part. It would be a fun battle." said Ash, perking up a bit, making Rai happy about that.

Just then, Mrs. Ketchum called up to the two of them about dinner being ready.

Both of them went down and had dinner before Rai had to leave an hour later because it was getting dark out quickly anymore and Mrs. Ketchum didn't like having any of Ash's friends out in the dark because of the wild pokemon that might attack them, which both Ash and Rai knew that wouldn't happen, but they just wanted to make her happy.

"I'll see you tomorrow, Rai. Your place at 10 in the morning?" asked Ash, walking Rai out and standing on the stoop with him.

"Yep. See you tomorrow, Ash." said Rai, leaving and he waved as he left.

Ash waved back before going back into the house to watch TV for a while before heading to bed with Pikachu sleeping on his right side.

(With Someone)

"That's when you'll be alone? Then, that's when I can capture you." said a voice coming from behind a nearby bush and they stood up.

Before anyone knew it, they were gone.

(The Next Morning)

Ash had finished eating his breakfast and was getting ready to leave when he saw that Pikachu wanted to come along, but he told it not to come because he would be fine.

Ash soon left after saying goodbye to his mother and Pikachu.

When Ash was half way to Rai's house, Ash was knocked out from behind by a club, which was used by someone.

"Now we have you. Time to take you back to Headquarters." said the same voice from before as they carried Ash away.

What Ash didn't know was that Pikachu had followed him at a distance and watched everything happen.

Pikachu quickly ran the rest of the way to Rai's house to let him know what happened.

(With Rai)

Rai had been waiting for a half hour for Ash to get to his house, but he never showed.

"Where is he? It's 10:15. He's never late for anything." thought Rai, looking out the window for a split second before starting to head to the family room, but before he got there, the doorbell rang and Rai thought that must be Ash and Rai knew that he would go off on Ash for being late.

Rai opened the door with an angry look on his face, hoping to see Ash, but his look quickly changed as he saw Pikachu sitting there.

"Pikachu? What are you doing and where's Ash?" asked Rai, looking down at Pikachu curiously.

Pikachu soon started to demonstrate what happened to Ash and Rai was shocked about what happened to his friend.

"It's all my fault. If we hadn't set up for him coming over to my house, then this would've never happened." thought Rai, blaming himself for what happened to Ash.

"Pikachu, did you see who took him?" asked Rai, looking down at Pikachu still.

Pikachu said the one thing that no one should ever hear: Team Rocket.

"Pikachu, we need help in getting Ash out of there before they do something really bad to him. Let's think about who can help us and we'll go from there." said Rai, thinking about how to handle this situation.

"Don't worry, my secret love. I will save you from Team Rocket." thought Rai with a determined look on his face.

Hope you enjoyed Chapter 1! I had started to write it with a different beginning, but I had to change it cause nothing sounded right. Oh well. That's actually one of the reasons why I'm late in posting and the other has been said in Chapter 4 of The Destruction Of Hunter J. I will try to update next week as I will see what happens during the week.

Hope you liked the beginning, Xerxes Glace Hydro! Let me know if I need to change anything!

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